Lancaster is pretty country and old fashioned with the Amish if you're familar with the area.

I've always operated in an out of the box fashion and I try to identify a niche and play within its limits.

All of the experienced investors tend to tell the truth, sometimes in a blunt fashion and even then the new investors often argue that they know better.

To the contrary, while flipping properties was an industry norm for many years, your father and I insisted that EquityBuild did not do transactions the old fashion way and we assisted them with creating procedures to assure that all their transactions were above boards and handled appropriately - your father created the procedures they used, so I did not understand why he suddenly thought they were wrong or unethical.

If the tenant wants the old fashion kind, we give it to them.

As such, "combining" funds in the manner you suggest becomes very difficult and even if done "in the recommended fashion" not without risk.There is an interpretation that an IRA/401k and disqualified party may joint venture in a very rigid fashion.The title is vested jointly on day one, reflecting the percentage of ownership.The equity in the project may not be altered in any way between the JV partners.AND - the tricky part - this is only OK if both sides could do the transaction alone and are not being enabled to participate in a transaction they would not have been able to without access to the disqualified funds.So, if your 401k (could) purchase a property - perhaps with a non-recourse loan - and chooses to JV with you instead, that is OK.  

At least not in a timely fashion.

So if I'm running my business in a respectable fashion, then I would say I am in a respectable profession.

So I guess I'm back to doing the old fashioned way.

And they're not always humming at peak efficiency or communicating well or in a timely fashion.